Alex gets in on the hawking, too...

[chefcraig]

Shit. I checked out Al's drum kit in 1984 and he had a chrome plated Ludwig snare, not some cork sniff rosewood thing with custom name plates affixed like it is a piece of fine furniture. This is getting rediculouse. I guess you have a brandy or a single malt with Mr. Van Halen as you discuss drumming by the fire at the gentleman's club.

It looks remarkably like those ghastly Ludwig kits from the seventies, that used pretty much the same wood grain wallpaper that Ford Motors glued to the side of their station wagons at the time.

[Nitro Express]

Until Dave says fuck you again to the lying Dutchmen, and goes off on more merry solo adventures.

Even though last tour was awesome, I find the DLR band audience to be much rowdier. :D

By the time Van Halen gets around to going on tour again the audience is going to need wheelchairs, walkers, and Depends adult diapers.

[Nitro Express]

It looks remarkably like those ghastly Ludwig kits from the seventies, that used pretty much the same wood grain wallpaper that Ford Motors glued to the side of their station wagons at the time.

I catch shit from my wife because I had a GTO as my high school ride and she had a piece of shit Pinto wagon about like that one. She constantly tells me I was spoiled as a kid, which is true.

[chefcraig]

I catch shit from my wife because I had a GTO as my high school ride and she had a piece of shit Pinto wagon about like that one. She constantly tells me I was spoiled as a kid, which is true.

She was probably pissed that her rear bumper seemed to be made out of flint.

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[Nitro Express]

My GTO was a 67. I bought it for $500 and it had 32,000 original miles. A lady on my lawn mowing route kept it because it was her husband's and showed it to me and asked if $500 was too much. I jumped at it. Wish I still had it.

This old commercial cracks me up because the dude makes the faux wood on the dash seem like a desirable bonus feature.

YouTube - 67' GTO (the Great One) Commercial

[Nitro Express]

Kids had some interesting cars when I was in high school. Lot's of old muscle cars. Super Bees, Chargers, Cameros, Mustangs ect... Lot's of VW's busses and bugs. A few air cooled Porsche's usually driven by kids who's father was a doctor and they got the old ride. Getting your grandmother's car after she kicked the bucket was common. I drove a 72 Caddilac Coupe de Ville for a while and that thing would fly. It would lay you in the seat. I had a Jeep CJ 7 too. A friend of mine inherited his grandma's Chrysler New Yorker which had a square steering wheel, a pushbutton transmission, and funky green vynle interior. We called it the green boat. One kid had an old hearse. I look at what kids drive now and there is no personality in those cars. Nothing interesting.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

yup. rims and a stereo, rims and a stereo, rims and a stereo.........